cacafire(1)

cacafire1

Libcaca's demonstration applications

Usage

cacademo

cacafire

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the cacademo and cacafire programs.

cacademo displays ASCII art effects with animated transitions: metaballs, moire pattern of concentric circles, old school plasma, Matrix-like scrolling.

cacafire displays burning ASCII art flames.

Keys

Enter

forces an effect transition to happen
Space

pauses and resumes the program
Esc

exits the program

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0–5.0
  3. 6.0–7
  4. 8–Arch

Bugs

Please report any bugs you find to <[email protected]>.

License

cacademo is covered by the Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License (WTFPL). cacafire is covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

Authors

cacademo's moire and matrix effects and this manual page were written by Sam Hocevar <[email protected]>.

cacademo's metaball effect was written by Jean-Yves Lamoureux <[email protected]>, cacafire is a port of AAlib's aafire written by Jan Hubicka <[email protected]> and cacademo's plasma effect is a port of an SDL plasma effect written and put in the public domain by Michele Bini <[email protected]>.

From libcaca 0.99.beta20-7 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.